Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it’s also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn’t make it.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

Obviously, there’s a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting… I’ve gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.

Those who ‚abjure‘ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq’s future is not.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

Without failure there is no achievement.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

We all have a choice. We can create transformational action that will safeguard the living conditions for future generations. Or we can continue with our business as usual and fail.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

It is natural to want to have a future.

War is the business of barbarians.

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States‘ response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.

I focus on one thing and one thing only – that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Hate crime is not new in the United States.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.

Applause waits on success.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.